CVE-2020-11651
SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
- Published
- Apr 30, 2020
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- May 5, 2020
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.9%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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CISA Known Exploited
This CVE appears in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Summary
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class does not properly validate method calls. This allows a remote user to access some methods without authentication. These methods can be used to retrieve user tokens from the salt master and/or run arbitrary commands on salt minions.
Sources
15Scanning tool to test for SaltStack vulnerabilities CVE-2020-11651 & CVE-2020-11652.
- SaltStack-ExpExploit
CVE-2020-11651&&CVE-2020-11652 EXP
- cve-2020-11651Exploit
Proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2020-11651 achieving pre-authentication remote code execution on SaltStack master and minions via salt.cmd runner.
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